Falling Slowly
"In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realisation that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her loneliness, illness threatens to sever them both from the one happiness they have grown to count on: each other. Painfully wise, the Sharpe sisters embody the conflicting yearnings Jane Austen delineated in Sense and Sensibility." -- Provided by publisher.
215 pages, 16 editions
English edition · First published 1998 by Penguin · ISBN 9780140277074
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Editions
16 editions
English
- Falling Slowly · Penguin · 1999 · ISBN 9780140277074 This page
- Falling Slowly · Penguin Books · 2016 · ISBN 9780241977811
- Falling Slowly · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 2016 · ISBN 9781531871161
- Falling Slowly · Audiogo · 2010 · ISBN 9781408456057
- Falling Slowly · Chivers Audio Books · 2001 · ISBN 9780754054306
- Falling Slowly: A Novel · Vintage Books · 2000 · ISBN 9780307826244
- Falling Slowly: A Novel · Vintage Books · 2000 · ISBN 9780241965542
- Falling Slowly · Penguin · 1999 · ISBN 9780140279610
- Falling Slowly · Charnwood · 1999 · ISBN 9780708990599
- Falling Slowly · Chivers Audio Books · 1999 · ISBN 9780754002673
- Falling Slowly: A Novel · Random House · 1998 · ISBN 9780375704246
- Falling Slowly · 1998 · ISBN 9781402878541
- Falling Slowly: A Novel · Random House · 1998 · ISBN 9780375501890
- Falling slowly · Viking · 1998 · ISBN 9780670881918
- Falling Slowly · Wheeler Pub. · 1998 · ISBN 9781568957005
- Falling Slowly · ISBN 9781489396723
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